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Two New Game Books Are Due From Hollow Press This Month
Brad Hock and Andrea Laperni extend the Italian publisher’s catalog of printed play, timed to Lucca Comics & Games.
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Lofsöng hides a nuclear warning
Alessandro Durando's wordless adventure sends you across brutalist monuments carved to outlast the language of their builders.
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The boss fight is offscreen in Leonardo Devito's Dark Souls
The Florence-born painter puts the monitor, the keyboard and an unimpressed onlooker on canvas
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SFMOMA and ZKM jointly acquire Eden.Garden 1.0, 25 years after its debut
The 2001 net artwork grows a 3D Garden of Eden out of any website's HTML—and it took a restoration at ZKM to make it collectible at all.
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Why Don't We Have Better Furniture For Board Games?
Armani Casa's new Borgonuovo games table is gorgeous—but it made me wonder why we don't design furniture for the board games we actually play today.
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Wheels of Aurelia sputters onto the race track
Elevator pitches have the benefit of being ideas rather than actual things in the real world. With the right pitch just about anything can sound promising. Take communism, for instance—a system that, on paper, reads like an egalitarian haven, promising equality, fairness, and a stable life for every
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Download a virtual art exhibit that features original games from around the world
La Triennale di Milano is an Italian modern art and design museum, focused on the relationship facilitated through art and industry. The La Triennial di Milano regularly displays exhibitions of design, architecture, art, fashion, film, and essentially anything contemporary. After a 20-year absence,
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Play through Italian trauma in these fables of fascism from WWII
A fable is put together like a joke: the punchline—the clever inversion we expect at the end—is set up with a story, sometimes just a framework distilled into the simplest form of itself. The hare oversleeps and the tortoise wins, and while we may have details about the hare’s braggadocio, these ani